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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Killeen, Bell County, Texas. Official Website Killeen is a military boom town due to it's close proximity to Fort Hood . History In 1881, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway extended its tracks through central Texas, buying 360 acres a few miles southwest of a small farming community known as Palo Alto, which had existed sin...
This cemetery is located on 3516 Lake Road, Killeen, Bell County, Texas. Find a Grave
Fort Cavazos, as it's now called, is a United States Army post located near Killeen, Texas. The post is named after Gen. Richard E. Cavazos, a native Texan and the US Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. Formerly named Fort Hood for Confederate General John Bell Hood, the post is located halfway between Austin and Waco, about 60 miles from each, within the U.S. state of Texas. The post is t...
Wikipedia Texas A&M University–Central Texas (TAMU-CT) is a public university in Killeen, Texas. It is one of the newest members of The Texas A&M University System. Founded in 1999 as a branch of Tarleton State University, it became an independent member of the Texas A&M University System in September 2009. TAMUCT is an upper division college, meaning its students must complete their freshman a...
Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery is located in Killeen, Texas. Find a Grave
On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base. Hasan was shot and as a result paralyzed from the waist down. He was arraigned by a military court on July 20, 2011 and was charged with 13 cou...